(Originally published at Degrees of Maternity on February 9, 2023.)

Your relationship with therapeutic writing can be quite intimate if you allow it to naturally function as it should. It’s relationship-like. Writing for personal healing is no new thing, because human beings are no new thing. We’ve been around for a while, and we’ve seen therapeutic writing used in…

(Originally published at Degrees of Maternity on February 7, 2023.)

Soooooo? How’d you do with your list?

Yes, I just had to start things off just . . . like . . . that. Because if you’re anything like me, it’s easy to put assignments off to another day when they’re more convenient to deal with. Until that convenient day conveniently NEVER comes. And, I…

(Originally published at Degrees of Maternity on February 2, 2023.)

Let’s talk about problem recognition, shall we? I mean . . . the very initial stage of working on healing your relationship with yourself is getting to what it is that needs healing. (Hey, probably sounds kind of unnatural to say it like that – “relationship with yourself.” I know. But, what I’m…

(Originally published at Degrees of Maternity on January 31, 2023.)

Hey there, my writing buddies. Back at you with some writing inspiration. At least, I hope that’s what you experience when you come to Degrees of Maternity. Because, I truly want you to feel inspired to write — for YOU and no one else. Therapeutic writing for self should be a personal thing. You…

(Originally published at Degrees of Maternity on January 26, 2023.)

. . . is that it’s supposed to make you feel better. That’s the simplified version of the whole outcome of participating in this activity.

So, I’ve attempted to uncomplicate the psychology of therapeutic writing by suggesting that problem resolution should be the impetus for engaging in this…

(Originally published at Degrees of Maternity on January 24, 2023.)

Last blog post, Write to Communicate to Yourself, I included a poll for you wonderful folks to complete, regarding where we should start in our “therapeutic writing to ourselves”…

(Originally published at Degrees of Maternity on January 19, 2023.)

Write it like you mean it!

That’s how I’m going to start this discussion. Because when it comes to writing to yourself, you owe it to yourself to be honest with yourself. (How many times can I say “yourself?”)

Really, what I’m trying to say is that you might…

(Originally published at Degrees of Maternity on January 17, 2023.)

My goal to incentivize you to write has taken on a brand-new but exciting undertone. A different direction – I know – but trek along with me, because we’re going to go all out with using written communication to improve our relationship with self and others.

It’s a needful time to do so,…

(Originally published at Degrees of Maternity on January 12, 2023.)

The following 5 sentences aren’t included in the 25, so don’t start counting  just yet.

In this blog post, I’m attempting to break down therapeutic writing into a few bite-sized nuggets of information — just to give you some insight into the world of Degrees of Maternity for the upcoming…

(Originally published at Degrees of Maternity on January 10, 2023.)

Hey, why not? Okay, that’s a pretty vague response, so I’ll start over.

The motivation behind writing therapy?

Well, quite simply, it’s YOU — and me.

Let me explain.

When I look all around me (at the human condition) today, I’m constantly…

(Originally published at Degrees of Maternity on January 5,…

(Originally published at Degrees of Maternity on January 3, 2023

2023 it is! New hopes, dreams, and outlooks are percolating in these online airways. And, I’m no exception to pivoting at certain times of the year. But, I’m not looking at what I’m about to reveal to you as a New Year’s Resolution. No, not at all. As a matter of fact, my new outlook has been months in the making. I just didn’t know it…

Originally published at Degrees of Maternity on September 10, 2021.

Today’s blog post is somewhat of a challenging one to write. Not because I can’t think of plenty to say — but because I really need to walk circumspectly alongside this topic of adaptability. It’s definitely one of my character traits that falls on the “needs improvement” (a lot of improvement)…

Originally published at Degrees of Maternity on September 3, 2021.

I would NEVER EVER encourage anyone to do something that they haven’t parsed out enough to see if it’s a viable option for him or her, before doing that something. I’m actually not that type of individual myself; so I’m, most certainly, not going to give…

Originally published at Degrees of Maternity on August 27, 2021.

To start off today’s discussion, I thought I’d present a couple of online definitions to you . . . just to make sure that we’re all on the same page, regarding the term “bandwagon”. So, Google says that bandwagon is “used in reference to an activity, cause, etc. that…

Originally published at Degrees of Maternity on August 20, 2021.

I’m not gonna lie . . . I have days that I don’t “feel” like blogging. Those moments are fleeting, but they’re a real part of my content…

Originally published at Degrees of Maternity on August 13, 2021.

So, I have to admit right off the bat that the inspiration for today’s “Blogging Truths Be Told” totally came from last week’s post, entitled …

Originally published at Degrees of Maternity on August 6, 2021.

How do I know this? Well, I’ve experienced this very thing. Not the “writer’s block” phenomenon per se, but the feeling of not “feeling it” when you sit down at the computer to start typing. It’s like you want to do the words on your page some justice, but they don’t live up to the quality or…

Originally published at Degrees of Maternity on July 30, 2021.

Let me just start by saying: family . . . friends . . . don’t be offended at what you’re about to read. It’s not meant to make anyone feel bad or to call anyone out. And, I mean that. The words in this blog post are simply provided to my fellow blogging buddies out there who need to know that what they…

Originally published at Degrees of Maternity on July 16, 2021.

This blog post is going to be a personally relevant one, because the title of it rings so true for me at this point in my blogging career. And I’m going to be discussing a lot about my own experiences in the blogosphere. I hope you don’t mind. It’s not that I have a desire to focus attention on myself…